Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-05-28
ARIZONA WEEKLY ENTERPRISR.
FLORENCE, MAY 2S, 1887
TUNEFUL "CHEsTNUTs."
Origin of the Sweet Ballads Which Never
 Grow Old.

'John Browns Body is an old Meth odist camp-meeting tune, and the words were adapted to it by a glee club of Bos- ton. 1t was first published at Charles town, Mass. Captain James Greenleaf, an organist of the Harvard Church, set the notes for music, and Massachusetts regiment made them first noted by sing ing them in Fort Warren in 1S61..
 The author of Maryland, My Mary land" lives at Washington, and you may see him in the press galleries of Congress almost any day during the session. He writes gossipy letters to the Atlanta Chronicle. His name is James k. Randall.
 America was written by Rev. Sam first sung in Boston on the Fourth of July of that year. Like the Battle Hymn of the Republic" it was inspired by great tune, viz: "God Save the King" This tune is used in nearly every country, and has been ascribed to Handel. The writer of the words still lives in Massachusetts, and he says that he wrote the song at sitting. He is now D years old.
 John Howard Payne's "Home. Sweet Home" was written for an opera, and he never got anything for it but his tombstone in Oak Hill Cemetery. It was first sung in the Covent Garden Theater in London, and made big hit.
 Foster got S15, GOO for writing "Old Folks at Home;'' Charles Dibdin netted several weeks board for writing "Poor Jack" while his publishers made S15,- GOO out of it. Crouch, the writer of ''Kathleen Mavourneen,n received $25 for the production and afterward be- came begging tramp, while its pub fishers could have built a brewn-stone front out of it's sales. George P. Morris wrote "Woodman, Spare That Tree, " because the purchaser of a friends estate wanted to cut down tree which his grandfather had planted. His friend paid the purchaser S10 to spare it. Nor ris was touched by the story and wrote the song.
 Hail Columbla," was written by Joseph Hopkinson in the Summer of 179S, and it was first called the "Presi- dents March," It was always sung when Washington came into the theater, and one of the objects of its writing was the cultivation of a patriotic spirit among the people of the republic. Joseph Hopkinson was 2S years old when he wrote it. It was first set to music by German, at Philadelphia, named Roth.
 'The Star Spangled Banuern was written by Francis Scott Key while watching the bombardment of Fort Me Henry. He was in small vessel among the British ships, and he saw his coun- trymen win the victory. All through the fight he watched anxiously to see if the flag was still standing; looking for it at night by the flash of the bombshells. and anxiously awaiting the dawning. The song was printed in the Baltimore AniericaH eight days after the battle, under the title of 'sThe Defense of Fort McHenry."
 Many people will be surprised to know that Yankee Doodle'' is not of Ameri- can origin. Even the words date back beyond the days of Queen Anne, and the Roundhads, says Commodore l Preble in his book on the flag of the United States, 10 which, by the way, am indebted for much of this informa- ton, Yankee Doodle' was applied in uerlSlOu to OIOluWell, anu IrOltSSOE | Rimbault, prominent physician of London, wrote the song directed at Cromwell under this title. The jingle of these two songs is about the same, and the words are not much different. Dr. Schuchburg first introduced the song into this country in 1775, and this was also in contempt of the ragged colonial soldiers. At Concord and Lex ington the British, when advancing tC fight, bravely played God Save the King" and after they were defeated the Yankees, as they watched their retreat struck up Yankee Doodle"
 "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean, was written by Thomas a'Becket, ar English actor, who in 17S9 was a teacher of music at Philadelphia.
 "The Blue and the Gray" was written by Francis Miles Finch, and delivered before a reunion of the army of the To- tomac. It was drawn out by the fac that the women of Columbus, Miss, strewed flowers on the graves of Con federate and Union soldiers alike. 1 was published in the AaGRtic Monthly. September, 1867.